I chose to compare Felton’s earliest report- 2005 (from this specific website) to his 2009 journey. It was neat that in 2009, his most recorded location was a restaurant beating the second closest place, residence, by 80 points/tallies/times? I couldn’t believe he literally wrote down all 9 ice cream flavors he ate within that year. I’m wondering what he means when he says his longest relationship is “forever”?

When reading his 2005 annual report, the first thing I noticed is that I recognized NONE of his music interests (Cat Power, Diplo, 13 and God). I was amazed at how many countries he visited but wondered what he did outside of recording his daily life that he was able to make the money to travel to all these foreign places! It was no surprise that his top referring link was google.com; whose isn’t?!

Although it was very interesting to read about his year through specific data, my main question was why? What was his reasoning for doing so and how were this able to get published? If I write an annual collection of data on my life will I become famous? It looks like a more detailed and extended version of my childhood diary. I think it would be awesome to interact with the public and see in a collection of graphs and data how they perceive you, however, I don’t think it has any right to be published. Who has time to record all of these tiny details of their life anyways? I’m also concerned with the fact that he is okay with his private life being available to the public including where he hangs out, lives, works, enjoys, acts. It’s like he is a celebrity for doing everyday normal activities. If it wasn’t for this class assignment, I would have no interest about reading about one man’s journey as it was not educating, inspiring, or very entertaining.